Virginia Thomas: Make Liberty Happen!
April 2, 2010
by Kathryn Ciano
|The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Check out Justice Thomas’s wife standing up for what she believes:
In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative “core principles,” she said.
The group plans to issue score cards for Congress members and be involved in the November election, although Thomas would not specify how. She said it would accept donations from various sources — including corporations — as allowed under campaign finance rules recently loosened by the Supreme Court.
“I adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country,” Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said on the panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great.”
The LA Times piece focuses on potential conflicts of interest. Ginni Thomas, an excellent role model for young women everywhere, dismisses the LAT’s indictments suggesting that judges’ spouses lay low.
Legally, the “conflicts of interest” angle is a bit attenuated. Politicians’ spouses have long been involved in separate-but-equal political lives. Can you even imagine someone motivated enough to get to the Supreme Court finding his “soul mate” in a person lacking similar political interest?
Ethically, if a conflict does arise, Thomas is responsible for identifying it and recusing himself from the case. Thomas is a huge proponent of local control, conservative mores, and quiet, even-keeled jurisprudence, it’s somewhat contrived to imply that he wouldn’t happily recuse in case of conflict.
Do it to it, Ginni! Make liberty happen!
Gretchen Carlson
Claudia Poccia
Jacki Zehner
Interesting, huh?
She’s actually breaking some ground. No doubt there is some sexism involved, because just suggesting that judicial wives must keep a low profile and remain nonpolitical is pretty silly. I bet nobody ever asked a judicial husband to give up his politics so as not to give the impression that his wife might have biases.
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